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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesikamahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas, 

Let us continue to enjoy BhoothatthAzhwAr?s- wonderful
anubhavams on ThiruvEnkatam. Next and today?s verse on
ThiruvEnkatam is 75th verse. 

pOthaRinthu vaanarangaL pooncunaipukku, aangalarntha
pOtharinthu koNdEtthum pOthu,uLLam - pOthu
maNivENG kadavan malaradikkE sella,
aNivENG kadavanpE raaynthu.                           
 72

Knowing that it is already wee hours; it is going to
dawn; the monkeys living in the mountain of
ThiruvEnkatam, get up from their sleep in the early
hours with great enthusiasm; go straight to the
PushkariNi (sacred pond) and immerse their heads into
it to take head bath (in that chill mornings); then
pluck and collect the just bloomed fresh flowers to
offer; they proceed straight to ThiruvEnkatamudaiyaan
sannidhi (sanctum sanctorum) to offer their flowers;
pay their obeisance; on the way, they praise the Lord
with his divine names; 

AzhwAr looking at these blessed monkeys living in the
mountain and performing such maanasa (mind by getting
up thinking of Him early morning); vaachika (praising)
and kaayika (collect flowers), addresses his mind: oh
my dear mind! You also start; proceed to go collect
the flowers and offer at the lotus feet of the Lord of
ThiruvEnkatam, which is like the ornament for the
earth; Utter his divine names. 

AzhwAr very beautifully refers to monkeys performing
such thrikaraNa kaimkaryam (maanasa vaachika and
kaayika kaimkaryam) and we humans do not do that. Our
mind is like that of monkeys (it is an insult now to
the monkey to compare the mind to them). Even the
flickering monkeys stand firm and steadfast in getting
up at the wee hours, contemplate on Him, go straight
and take bath (*without eating anything; not even
coffee or breakfast] in pushkarinI; collect
flowers, praise Him with His divine names and go to
the sannidhi. 

Many of us do not even take bath in the morning before
lighting the stove for cooking. What to talk of bath
for the Lord? One should get up in Brahma muhoortham
(around 4 a.m.) and utter His name Hari: Hari: seven
times (utterance of Hari name destroys all paapams ?
hari harathi paapani) and then start the day. One
should take bath; perform sandhi, japam and then only
consume something for antharyaami.. and not get up
after the sunrise; drink coffee /tea; go for a walk;
come back read newspaper; eat breakfast, then it is
already time and we are in a hurry to take bath
quickly; skip sandhi, etc.. 

AzhwAr gently reminds us by saying the monkeys follow
saasthrAs; and oh mind, you also adhere to saasthrAs. 

AndAL mentions the same meLLa yezhundhu Hari yenRa
pEraravam and 
in 5th verse of Thiruppaavai, thooyommay vandhu
thooamalar thoovi thozhudhu- both can be referred to
here. 

meLLa yezhundhu Hari yenRa pEraravam
The scholars, Sages, and elders who lead their lives
in accordance with saasthrAs get up and loudly Utter
?Hari: Hari:.. seven times in the wee hours. [One
should utter loudly Hari: Hari: seven times when 
waking up in the morning and prays to Him for making
us perform Kaimkaryam -Nithya, naimittika karma,
AgnyA, anugnyA karmA with no hurdles- and with
Saathvika thyaagam- Sriman Narayana Preethyarttham]. 

thooyOmaay vandhu thoomalar thoovi thozhudhu-

When one surrenders to Sri Krishnan, all karmas
(Sanchitha karma and Praarabdha karma) get
extinguished- All the Sanchita Karmas( Accumulated )
and Praarabdha Karmas (started to yield) will be
completely finished like the straw dirt being burnt by
fire- within no time.

By going to Him with pure heart (thooyOmaay vandhu)

THOO MALAR THOOVI THOZHUDU, VAAYINAAL PAADI,
MANATHINAAL SINDHIKKA Worship
by body, Speech and Mind (Mano, Vak,
Kaayam)-[BhUmAdEvi was submerged in the ocean by an
asura called Hiranyaksha. Lord Sriman nArAyana took
the incarnation of a big boar (varAha avtaar) and went
into The ocean to uplift up BhUmAdevi. She was lifted
up and made sit in the
lap of the Lord. Still bhUmAdEvi was shivering. When
the Lord asked her for the reason, She replied
politely :" Oh! my nAthA! You have protected me. But
still our children in the samsArA are helpless and
suffering. They cannot practice the uninterrupted
meditation in Bhakti yoga as preached by you in the
Vedas with their limited knowledge. So you must be
kind enough to show them a simpler way to reach you"
The Lord understood the affection of bhUmAdEvi towards
her children and gave a most compassionate reply: The
simplest way to reach me is in stable state of mind,
[with all three organs of senses (karanam) viz. manas,
vAk and kAyam (speech, action and thought)]-surrender
to Me.

Think only about him, act only for pUja [ArAdhana] to
Him, and speak only in praise of Him. Immediately
bhUmi piratti [AndAL] grasped this easy means of
Saranagathi to reach the Lord and thought it fit to be
preached to us in this samsAra. Thus comes ThiruppAvai
and this line in particular.

The monkeys have done; let us also start at least from
tomorrow (nay, today)
        
AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
SrI PadmAvathI SamEtha Sri Srinivasa ParabrahmaNE
Namah: 
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan


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